The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-31
Railroads, Stock Yards, Manu-.
factories, WaterWorks and
Other Enterprises,
Now Assured to This City, Max.
ing 1t Reasonably Ger.
tain That
Emporia is to be The Great Cen.
trail City Of the Great
Central State.

Of Emporia be pushed to the front.
Let solid work and common-sense reas-
oning prevail. There is now no need
Of an appeal to the imagination. The
long talked of boom has become a fixed
fact. Emporia has without question
made herself the hub of a great railroad
center, greater than any city now lying
west of the Missouri River. The vot-
ing of county bonds to aid in the cen
struction of the Missouri, Kansas &
Southwestern Railroad was a master
stroke. It makes the city the head
quarters Of corporation backed by
syndicate representing not less
than $15, 900 coo. And this coming as
it does in connection with several
other enterprises is sure to give En-
poria red hot bonanza and verify the
old saying shat it never rains but it
pours." Now in the name of the Holy
Prophets, who can tell what our future
win beT Who will predict it? Those
that want to profit by the rise in real
estate, sure to follow, ought to take
time to figure up the situation and post
themselves up in regard to the many
good things that are right on the eve of
the day of their elimination. Emporia
has always been called a pretty city
and a good city. Modern bards have
been profuse in their praises of her
loneliness and had the stoical historians
Dionysius and Strabo lived in our day
they too could have written her praises.
But as beauty and docility do not al
ways build up cities any more than ma
tural locations, the people of Emporia
have at last become awakened to
the Importance of the situation,
and have combined to bring together a
series of improvements that cannot
fail to put Emporia on an equal footing
with the most prosperous city in the
state. Without stopping to calculate
the numerous enterprises that have al
ready been established here for the
support of our 1900 inhabitants,
will without going into detail mention
a few of the improvements that are
about to be commenced. The building
of our new and magnificent system OF
waterworks, at total cost of nearly
500, GOO, although scarcely commenc.
ed, commands more labor than can be
readily supplied. The building of the
new wing of the State Normal is to be
commenced just as soon as the plans
and specifications can be prepared
This is an item Of s25. 600. The Grand
Army building that is now underway
will cost about as much more. Then
ONES the new gas works to be built
by the Emporia Gas s. Electric
Light company at an expense of mauy
thousands Of dollars, besides hundreds
of buildings that will be required in al
parts Of the city. The above men
toned even when added to the work tt
be performed in carrying out the plans
and expenditures to be made by moi
less than four wealthy syndicates who
f! are taking steps toward building uI
suburban villas, in which nearly &
million dollars is to be used, is but {
drop in the bucket, as it were, wheI
compared to the cords OF dollars thai
are to be distributed here by the great
railroad enterprises that we have nov
secured. and when completed viii
make the map of Lyon County lool
very much like the hub and spokes of /;
wagon wheel, as you can start from
Emporia and run by rail toward al
most any subdivision of the compass
The far-seeing officials at the head of tn,
great Santa Fe system of railroads hav,
already selected Emporia as the head
quarters for the shipping to and dis
tributing of all the cattle brought from
the West and Southwest. To this ent
they have secured large tract of LAM
adjoining what they already had lyin,
west Of the city, where the most exten
sive stock-yards west of Kansas Cit,
will be built. About the first of Jun
next their great through line, extend
ing from Emporia to Galveston, will b.
completed, and connecting passenge
trains, it is said, will be put on to rul
from Emporia to Kansas City by thu
way of Ottawa. This will be the grea
short line route Of the Santa Fe system
from this point by the way of Kansa!
City to Chicago. The increased. bust
ness that viii accumulate at this placl
will necessitate the building of a con
siderable addition to their locomo
tive and car works at thil
point. This enterprising corpora
tion, it is understood, will sooI
commence the construction of branch
of road which viii enable them to reach
their extensive coal fields lying south
east Of here. This win greatly facilitate
their business operations at this point
If anybody has any doubt about the
vastness of the operations that THU
city has become the base of, let then
look at the acres Of railroad materia
that Is now laid down here. The new
Atchison Topeka road that is being
built north will soon open up to III
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